Sujet
George Atwood's machine for demonstrating the effect of gravity on falling bodies, c1780. Artist: Unknown
Légende
George Atwood's machine for demonstrating and investigating the effect of gravity on falling bodies, c1780. Atwood (1746-1807), an English mathematician, devised his machine as an experiment to verify the mechanical laws of uniformly accelerated motion. It consists of two masses connected by an inelastic string over a massless pulley.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1780
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B64_426
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
29,9Mo (1,2Mo) / 24,5cm x 30,6cm / 2899 x 3610 (300dpi)